Norman Gasbarro | September 18, 2015
The above obituary, announcing the death of William Orth, appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph on 17 July 1917: WAR VETERAN DIES Blain, Pennsylvania, 17 July 1917 – William Orth, a veteran of the Civil War and a well known music teacher of the old school, died last night at his home in Jackson Township, aged […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 16, 2015
CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES AT HALIFAX; 78 YEARS OLD Halifax, 22 June 1919 — Samuel B. Pottiger, a veteran of the Civil War, died here yesterday in his seventy-eighth year, following a brief illness caused by paralysis. He was for the greater part of his life a prominent citizen of this place and for forty-four […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 14, 2015
In January 2013, in a post entitled They Served Honorably in Company H, 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, it was incorrectly reported that Daniel W. Tobias moved to Illinois after the war. It is now known that the man who served in Company H was most commonly known as Daniel Tobias and the man who served in […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 11, 2015
An obituary of William H. Crook, who was born in Clark’s Ferry, appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph on 17 January 1914: CAPTAIN CROOK, WAR VETERAN AND FORMER CITY OFFICIAL, DIES Taken Ill During Intense Heat of Gettysburg Encampment in July BIRTHDAY EVERY FOUR YEARS Captain William H. Crook, well-known Republican, a prominent Civil War veteran […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 9, 2015
One of several names on the Lykens G.A.R. Monument that was not previously identified as to a specific Civil War regiment and company is George W. Clark. The monument tablet only notes that he was a musician and that he was not a member of the Heilner G.A.R. Post. In searching for him in the Pennsylvania […]
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